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Sealgaire |
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January 17, 2009 12:14:56am |
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Re: Get rid of tons of spam advertisements! |
Been reading "old" posts, sort of "catching up"...
The problem with banning an entire IP as a means of combating spam is that you will also ban EVERYONE using that IP, whether there are 100,000 spammers -- or only one.
I once had to use an Internet Cafe to do my web surfing, as I did not have 'net access from home (and was not allowed from work), and was only one of at least 100 customers. Two irresponsible customers decided to have "fun" by spamming thousands of e-mail accounts and websites, using their 'Net cafe accounts. Had the IP -- the Internet Cafe -- been banned by all those websites, the spammers would simply have found another place to spam from. Myself and at least 80 of the other customers using that same IP depended solely on that IP for internet access; we would have been effectively banned from the entire internet.
Banning an entire IP for the actions of only a few of its customers is NOT the answer.
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